The Founder of New Beginnings Talk To Teens Mrs Toula Gordillo

Toula Gordillo

Toula Gordillo has an extensive work history as a Clinical Psychologist, Guidance Officer, Registered Teacher and Workplace Trainer and Assessor. She has worked as a Primary School Teacher, School Guidance Officer and Guidance Officer - Intensive Behaviour Support (GOIBS) in some of the largest, and most challenging, state and private schools in North and South-East Queensland. Toula has provided educational and psychological services to children, youth and adults for almost twenty years. She has worked as an Employee Advisor as part of the Employee Assistance Program for Education Queensland, a Psychologist in the Consultation and Liaison Team for Townsville Hospital (in which she provided Hypnotherapy for individuals experiencing the trauma of severe illness and major operations) and as a Psychologist in Child and Youth Mental Health. Together with a colleague in Townsville, Toula worked in a private consultancy for seven years running Leadership Programs for Centrelink, administration of Psychometric Assessments for large corporations such Comalco and Dairy Farmers and as part of Post-Placement support for the long-term unemployed candidates with Employment National. Toula has also worked for ten years as a Supervisor for the Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors conducting Seminars, Tuition and Private Assessments for students (AIPC). She is the founder of New Beginnings – Psychological, Educational/Developmental and Hypnotherapy Services on the Sunshine Coast. She is also the mother of three children. With degrees in Arts, Education and Psychology, Toula has completed a Masters in Psychology (Clinical) in 2007 and is presently studying her PhD in stress coping and mental health among Australian teenagers. She is a Full Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS) and a Full Member of the APS Clinical College (CCLIN) and the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA). Toula’s passion is to assist individuals and families to achieve their maximum potential in all areas so that they truly can create their own “New Beginning”.